Gustavo Castillo Garcia
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday March 17, 2023, p. 6
The Special Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Corruption managed to get a federal judge to order a process against the former customs administrator of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, Jaime Nova Palma, for the crimes of illegal use of powers and faculties, when incurring in actions that allowed a ship that was allegedly carrying more than 2 million liters of fuel to be illegally imported from the United States to Mexico without paying the corresponding taxes.
In this way, the FGR reopened a case in which, in March 2022, a collegiate court based in Michoacán granted protection to Nova Palma and the customs inspector, Alejandra Estefanía Rincón, for not having fulfilled their powers and causing damage to the treasury. federal, since the ship reported a cargo of diesel and it was discovered that it was gasoline imported illegally into Mexico.
